False Identities

Unbearable Statistics & Bad Ideas About Homosexuality

With the mainstreaming of homosexuality, some gays are starting to pull back the curtains on gay life, giving the rest of the world a look inside. The picture isn't rosy. Last March, the Huffington Post ran an essay titled, "Together Alone: The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness." In an exposition that runs nearly 7,000 words long, 34-year-old Seattle journalist Michael Hobbes describes the struggles, travails, and deep-seated feelings of emptiness, alienation, and depression he's seen, both in the lives of his friends and as reflected in gay literature and LGBT-related research. Along the way, he drops enough hints to reveal his own existential distress. "I've also been in and out...